You might keep doing things even if they are effortless if they satisfy some other set point. After all, breathing is pretty boring to most people and you keep doing it. But once it is no longer something you have enough uncertainty about it will certainly become less interesting and so maybe not a super stimulus.
I agree there is something where if stuff is too hard we don’t seem to view it as a chance to update and instead view it as just requiring more effort than is worthwhile...except in these supercharged states where we’ll put up with more to get what we want. I haven’t thought much about how this might interact with naturally arising flow states people get into. My theory says that should somehow be powered by minimization of prediction error since it says everything ultimately is, I just haven’t thought about how that might work.
You might keep doing things even if they are effortless if they satisfy some other set point. After all, breathing is pretty boring to most people and you keep doing it. But once it is no longer something you have enough uncertainty about it will certainly become less interesting and so maybe not a super stimulus.
I agree there is something where if stuff is too hard we don’t seem to view it as a chance to update and instead view it as just requiring more effort than is worthwhile...except in these supercharged states where we’ll put up with more to get what we want. I haven’t thought much about how this might interact with naturally arising flow states people get into. My theory says that should somehow be powered by minimization of prediction error since it says everything ultimately is, I just haven’t thought about how that might work.